AS David Irving
realised, when he smuggled vital Goebbels items out of
the KGB archives to copy them for posterity in 1992 (he
returned them all to the files, but donated copies
immediately to West German institutes) the Russians were
likely soon to start resealing their archives of captured
documents; and even those they released to the German
government were likely to vanish for years on end into
"official" archives. Such is the way of the
archivists.